Gate Electrode In Trench Or Recess In Semiconductor Substrate Patents (Class 438/270)
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Patent number: 10680076Abstract: The present disclosure provides a trench power semiconductor component and a method of making the same. The trench power semiconductor component includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer, and a trench gate structure. The epitaxial layer is disposed on the substrate, the epitaxial layer having at least one trench formed therein. The trench gate structure is located in the at least one trench. The trench gate structure includes a bottom insulating layer covering a lower inner wall of the at least one trench, a shielding electrode located in the lower half part of the at least one trench, a gate electrode disposed on the shielding electrode, an inter-electrode dielectric layer disposed between the gate electrode and the shielding electrode, an upper insulating layer covering an upper inner wall of the at least one trench, and a protection structure including a first wall portion and a second wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SUPER GROUP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsiu-Wen Hsu, Chun-Ying Yeh, Yuan-Ming Lee
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Patent number: 10679983Abstract: A semiconductor body having a drift region layer, a body region layer adjoining the drift region layer, and a source region layer adjoining the body region layer and forming a first surface of the semiconductor body is provided. At least two trenches extend from the first surface of the semiconductor body through the source region layer and the body region layer. In each of the trenches a gate electrode and a gate dielectric are formed. Diode regions are directly adjacent to each of the at least two trenches. The diode regions extend from the first surface of the semiconductor body through the source region layer and the body region layer. The diode regions include a first region and a second region. A doping concentration in the diode regions varies such that a doping concentration is higher near the first surface than at the bottom of the trench.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AGInventors: Ralf Siemieniec, Dethard Peters, Romain Esteve
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Patent number: 10658365Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same is provided in the present invention. The method includes the step of forming first mask patterns on a substrate, wherein the first mask patterns extend in a second direction and are spaced apart in a first direction to expose a portion of first insulating layer, removing the exposed first insulating layer to form multiple recesses in the first insulating layer, performing a surface treatment to the recess surface, filling up the recesses with a second insulating layer and exposing a portion of the first insulating layer, removing the exposed first insulating layer to form a mesh-type isolation structure, and forming storage node contact plugs in the openings of mesh-type isolation structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP., Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.Inventors: Li-Wei Feng, Shih-Fang Tzou, Chien-Cheng Tsai, Chih-Chi Cheng, Chia-Wei Wu, Ger-Pin Lin
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Patent number: 10658494Abstract: Devices and methods of fabricating vertical nanowires on semiconductor devices are provided. One method includes: obtaining an intermediate semiconductor device having a substrate, a first insulator disposed above the substrate, a material layer over the first insulator, a second insulator above the material layer, and a first hardmask; etching a plurality of vertical trenches through the hardmask, the first and second insulators, and the material layer; growing, epitaxially, a set of silicon nanowires from a bottom surface of the plurality of vertical trenches; etching a first set of vertical trenches to expose the material layer; etching a second set of vertical trenches to the substrate; depositing an insulating spacer material on a set of sidewalls of the first and second set of vertical trenches; and forming contacts in the first and second set of vertical trenches.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Dominic J. Schepis, Alexander Reznicek
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Patent number: 10600879Abstract: A trench structure is located directly laterally between a first well and a first source region for a first transistor and the second well region with a second source for a second transistor. The trench structure includes a first gate structure for the first transistor, a second gate structure for the second transistor, a first conductive field plate structure, and a second conductive field plate structure. The first gate structure, the first field plate structure, the second field plate structure, and the second gate structure are located in the trench structure in a lateral line between the first well region and the second well region. The trench structure includes a dielectric separating the first field plate structure and the second field plate structure from each other in the lateral line. A drain region for the first transistor and the second transistor includes a portion located directly below the trench structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NXP USA, INC.Inventors: Bernhard Grote, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Ljubo Radic, Vishnu Khemka
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Patent number: 10600800Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and word-line-level electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and a drain-select-level electrically conductive layer located over the alternating stack. Memory stack structures extend through the alternating stack and the drain-select-level electrically conductive layer. Dielectric divider structures including a respective pair of straight sidewalls and drain-select-level isolation structures including a respective pair of sidewalls that include a respective set of concave vertical sidewall segments divide the drain-select-level electrically conductive layer into multiple strips. The drain-select-level electrically conductive layer and the drain-select-level isolation structures are formed by replacement of a drain-select-level sacrificial material layer with a conductive material and by replacement of drain-select-level sacrificial line structures with dielectric material portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Masatoshi Nishikawa, Shinsuke Yada, Yanli Zhang
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Patent number: 10600906Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. A plurality of trenches are formed in the substrate. An isolation oxide layer is formed in the trenches and on the substrate. A shield polysilicon is deposited in the trenches and on the isolation oxide layer on the substrate. A first etching process is performed to remove a first portion of the shield polysilicon. A first removal process is performed to remove a first portion of the isolation oxide layer. A second etching process is performed to remove a second portion of the shield polysilicon. A second removal process is performed to remove a second portion of the isolation oxide layer. An inter-poly oxide layer is formed on the remaining shield polysilicon and the remaining isolation oxide layer, wherein the inter-poly oxide layer has a concave top surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Chung-Yen Chien, Sheng-Wei Fu, Chung-Yeh Lee
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Patent number: 10593803Abstract: A method of forming a vertical fin field effect transistor (vertical finFET) with a self-aligned shallow trench isolation region, including forming a pinch-off layer on one or more vertical fin segments, wherein the pinch-off layer has a thickness on the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fin segments, forming a trench mask layer on predetermined portions of the pinch-off layer, removing portions of the pinch-off layer not covered by the trench mask layer, where the removed portions of the pinch-off layer exposes underlying portions of the substrate, and removing at least a portion of the substrate to form one or more isolation region trenches, where the distance of the sidewall of one of the one or more isolation region trenches to an adjacent vertical fin segment is determined by the thickness of the pinch-off layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Brent A. Anderson, Fee Li Lie, Junli Wang
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Patent number: 10580773Abstract: A method of forming a power rail to semiconductor devices comprising removing a portion of the gate structure forming a gate cut trench separating a first active region of fin structures from a second active region of fin structures. A conformal etch stop layer is formed in the gate cut trench. A fill material is formed on the conformal etch stop layer filling at least a portion of the gate cut trench. The fill material has a composition that is etched selectively to the conformal etch stop layer. A power rail is formed in the gate cut trench. The conformal etch stop layer obstructs lateral etching during forming the power rail to substantially eliminate power rail to gate structure shorting.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Tessera, Inc.Inventors: Marc A. Bergendahl, Andrew M. Greene, Rajasekhar Venigalla
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Patent number: 10573742Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate trench extending into a Si substrate, a body region in the Si substrate adjacent the gate trench, a source region in the Si substrate above the body region, a contact trench extending into the Si substrate and filled with an electrically conductive material which contacts the source region at a sidewall of the contact trench and a highly doped body contact region at a bottom of the contact trench, a diffusion barrier structure formed along the sidewall of the gate trench, the diffusion barrier structure comprising alternating layers of Si and oxygen-doped Si and a Si capping layer on the alternating layers of Si and oxygen-doped Si, and a channel region formed in the Si capping layer and which vertically extends along the sidewall of the gate trench. Corresponding methods of manufacture are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AGInventors: Thomas Feil, Robert Haase, Martin Poelzl, Maximilian Roesch, Sylvain Leomant, Bernhard Goller, Ravi Keshav Joshi
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Patent number: 10573725Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer, and silicide layer. The semiconductor substrate has a plurality of protrusions. The dielectric layer is disposed over the semiconductor substrate and has a plurality of blocks disposed over the protrusions. The silicide layer is disposed over a first sidewall of the protrusions, a second sidewall of the blocks, and an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first sidewall, and a bottom surface of the silicide layer is lower than a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Chung-Lin Huang
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Patent number: 10566300Abstract: Bond pad structures and methods for fabricating bond pad structures. A bond pad and a plurality of fill lines are formed on the top surface of a dielectric layer. The fill lines are arranged on the top surface of the dielectric layer adjacent to the bond pad, and may be separated from the bond pad by a fill keep-out zone. One or more Under Bump Metallurgy (UBM) layers may be arranged on the bond pad and may extend outwardly to overlap with the fill lines.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Scott Pozder, Thiagarajan Raman, Kristina Young-Fisher, David Stone
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Patent number: 10566466Abstract: A semiconductor device structure includes a region of semiconductor material having an active region and a termination region. An active structure is disposed in the active region and a termination structure is disposed in the termination region. In one embodiment, the termination structure includes a termination trench and a conductive structure within the termination trench and electrically isolated from the region of semiconductor material by a dielectric structure. A dielectric layer is disposed to overlap the termination trench to provide the termination structure as a floating structure. A Schottky contact region is disposed within the active region. A conductive layer is electrically connected to the Schottky contact region and the first conductive layer extends onto a surface of the dielectric layer and laterally overlaps at least a portion of the termination trench.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Mohammed Tanvir Quddus, Mihir Mudholkar, Zia Hossain
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Patent number: 10559674Abstract: A manufacturing method of a trench power semiconductor device is provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of forming a protective layer on an epitaxial layer and forming a trench gate structure in a trench formed in an epitaxial layer. The trench gate structure includes a shielding electrode, a gate disposed on the shielding electrode and an inter-electrode dielectric layer disposed therebetween. The step of forming the trench gate structure includes forming an insulating layer covering an inner surface of the trench; and before the step of forming the inter-electrode dielectric layer, forming an initial spacing layer, the spacing layer including a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion, both of which include bottom end portions spaced apart from each other and extending portions protruding from the protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SUPER GROUP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsiu-Wen Hsu, Chun-Ying Yeh, Chun-Wei Ni, Yuan-Ming Lee
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Patent number: 10553714Abstract: A trench MOSFET device is fabricated with body source regions that undulate along a channel width direction of the MOSFET device such that the body region and source region have variations in depth along the channel width direction. The undulations increase a channel width of the MOSFET device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: ALPHA AND OMEGA SEMICONDUCTOR INCORPORATEDInventor: Sik Lui
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Patent number: 10529851Abstract: Techniques for forming bottom source and drain extensions in VTFET devices are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VTFET device includes: patterning fins in a wafer; forming a liner at a base of the fins having a higher diffusivity for dopants than the fins; forming sidewall spacers alongside an upper portion of the fins; forming bottom source/drains on the liner at the base of the fins including the dopants; annealing the wafer to diffuse the dopants from the bottom source/drains, through the liner, into the base of the fins to form bottom extensions; removing the sidewall spacers; forming bottom spacers on the bottom source/drains; forming gate stacks alongside the fins above the bottom spacers; forming top spacers above the gate stacks; and forming top source/drains above the top spacers at tops of the fins. A VTFET device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shogo Mochizuki, Kangguo Cheng, Juntao Li, Choonghyun Lee
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Patent number: 10516027Abstract: The present disclosure provides a trench power semiconductor component and a method of making the same. The trench power semiconductor component includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer, and a trench gate structure. The epitaxial layer is disposed on the substrate, the epitaxial layer having at least one trench formed therein. The trench gate structure is located in the at least one trench. The trench gate structure includes a bottom insulating layer covering a lower inner wall of the at least one trench, a shielding electrode located in the lower half part of the at least one trench, a gate electrode disposed on the shielding electrode, an inter-electrode dielectric layer disposed between the gate electrode and the shielding electrode, an upper insulating layer covering an upper inner wall of the at least one trench, and a protection structure including a first wall portion and a second side wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: SUPER GROUP SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsiu-Wen Hsu, Chun-Ying Yeh, Yuan-Ming Lee
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Patent number: 10504905Abstract: Some embodiments include a memory array having rows of fins. Each fin has at least one channel region. Each channel region extends from a first source/drain region to a second source/drain region. The channel regions within each row of fins include first channel regions and second channel regions. Wordline configurations extend along the rows of fins. Each wordline configuration has a first wordline component operated in tandem with a second wordline component. The first wordline components electrically couple with only the first channel regions and the second wordline components electrically couple with only the second channel regions.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Werner Juengling
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Patent number: 10475916Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a trench in a cell outer peripheral region configured to pull out a gate electrode and a trench in a cell region having a vertical transistor are formed with the same width to enable a reduction in chip area, and a manufacturing method thereof in which a gate contact hole is formed directly on a trench in a cell outer peripheral region on a self-alignment basis, and a gate wiring electrode is connected thereto are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: ABLIC INC.Inventors: Masahiro Hatakenaka, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10475919Abstract: A method for producing an integrated power transistor circuit includes forming at least one transistor cell in a cell array, each transistor cell having a doped region formed in a semiconductor substrate and adjoining a first surface of the semiconductor substrate on a first side of the semiconductor substrate, depositing a contact layer on the first side, structuring the contact layer to form a contact structure from the contact layer, the contact structure having, in a projection of the cell array orthogonal to the first surface, a first section and, outside the cell array, a second section which connects the first section to an interface structure, and forming an electrode structure on and in direct contact with the first section in the orthogonal projection of the cell array, the electrode structure being absent outside the cell array.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AGInventor: Britta Wutte
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Patent number: 10468518Abstract: A power semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a semiconductor base body which has a super junction structure formed of a plurality of first conductive-type columnar regions and a plurality of second conductive-type columnar regions; a plurality of trenches; gate insulation films; gate electrodes; an interlayer insulation film; contact holes formed such that two or more contact holes are formed between two trenches disposed adjacently to each other; metal plugs formed by filling the inside of the contact holes with metal; and an electrode, wherein a first conductive-type high concentration diffusion region is formed only between the trench and the metal plug disposed closest to the trench between each two trenches disposed adjacently to each other. According to the power semiconductor device of the present invention, it is possible to provide a power semiconductor device which satisfies a demand for reduction in cost and downsizing of electronic equipment, and has a large breakdown strength.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mizue Kitada, Takeshi Asada, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Noriaki Suzuki, Daisuke Arai
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Patent number: 10453918Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body coupled to first and second load terminal structures, first and second cells electrically connected to the first load terminal structure and to a drift region, the drift region having a first conductivity type; a first mesa in the first cell and including: a port region electrically connected to the first load terminal structure, and a channel region coupled to the drift region; a second mesa in the second cell and including: a port region of the opposite conductivity type and electrically connected to the first load terminal structure, and a channel region coupled to the drift region. Each mesa is spatially confined, in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the load current within the respective mesa, by an insulation structure. The insulation structure houses a control electrode structure, and a guidance electrode arranged between the mesas.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Anton Mauder, Franz-Josef Niedernostheide, Christian Philipp Sandow
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Patent number: 10424647Abstract: In accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, a transistor comprises a semiconductor, a first drift layer, a drain region, a body region, a source region, a shallow trench isolation region, a dielectric, and a gate. The first drift layer is formed in the semiconductor and has majority carriers of a first type. The drain region is formed in the first drift layer and has majority carriers of the first type. The body region is formed in the semiconductor and has majority carriers of a second type. The source region is formed in the body region and has majority carriers of the first type. The shallow trench isolation region is formed in the first drift layer and disposed between the drain region and the body region. The dielectric is formed on the semiconductor, and the gate is formed over the dielectric and has a lift-up region.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Jun Cai
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Patent number: 10381369Abstract: A vertical memory device structure can include a vertical channel structure that vertically penetrates through an upper structure and a lower structure of a stack structure in a cell array region of the device. The vertical channel structure can have a side wall with a stepped profile at a level in the vertical channel structure where the upper structure meets the lower structure. A vertical dummy structure can vertically penetrate through a staircase structure that is defined by the upper structure and the lower structure in a connection region of the device, and the vertical dummy structure can have a side wall with a planar profile at the level where the upper structure meets the lower structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongsoo Kim, Hyunmog Park, Joongshik Shin
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Patent number: 10374080Abstract: On a front surface of a semiconductor base, an n?-type drift layer, a p-type base layer, an n++-type source region, and a gate trench and a contact trench penetrating the n++-type source region and the p-type base layer and reaching the n?-type drift layer are provided. The contact trench is provided separated from the gate trench. A Schottky metal is embedded in the contact trench and forms a Schottky contact with the n?-type drift layer at a side wall of the contact trench. An ohmic metal is provided at a bottom of the contact trench and forms an ohmic contact with the n?-type drift layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Ohse, Yusuke Kobayashi, Takahito Kojima, Shinsuke Harada
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Patent number: 10355078Abstract: A device includes a silicon carbide layer between first and second electrodes. The silicon carbide layer includes first region, second region between the first region and second electrode, and third region between the second region and second electrode. The device includes first and second trenches, through the second and third regions and terminating within the first region, having a layer formed thereon, and spaced by portions of the second and third regions. The silicon carbide layer includes fourth region between the third region and first trench, and fifth region between the third region and second trench. The second region includes a fourth portion between first and second portions, and a fifth portion between second and third portions. The first, second, and third portions have lower impurity than the fourth and fifth portions, and the fourth and fifth portions extend closer to the first electrode than do the other portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hiroshi Kono, Takuma Suzuki
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Patent number: 10340147Abstract: A downsized semiconductor device having an excellent reverse characteristic, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device is sought to improve. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor body having a polygonal contour. An active area is formed in the semiconductor body. An EQR electrode is formed so as to surround the active area and to have curved portions of the EQR electrode along the corners of the semiconductor body. An interlayer insulating film is formed to cover the active area and the EQR electrode. The EQR electrode is embedded in the interlayer insulating film around the active area. EQR contacts are in contact with the curved portions of the EQR electrode and the semiconductor body outside the curved portions, and have at least side walls covered with the interlayer insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Kouichi Murakawa
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Patent number: 10332747Abstract: In an exemplary method, a dielectric layer is deposited on a substrate. A masking layer is formed over a first region and a second region of the dielectric layer. The masking layer is made of an oxide of lanthanum. The masking layer is removed from the second region of the dielectric layer. A work function layer is formed directly on only the second region of the dielectric layer. The work function layer is made of titanium nitride that is formed by using a combination of titanium tetrachloride and ammonia (TiCl4/NH3).Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Meng Zhu, Brian A. Cohen, Matthew T. Whitman, Balaji Kannan
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Patent number: 10332967Abstract: A semiconductor device including, a semiconductor layer including a plurality of first trenches formed therein and a second trench formed in a region between the first trenches, channel regions formed in regions between the first and second trenches in a surface layer portion of the semiconductor layer, field plate electrodes embedded at bottom portion sides of the respective first trenches, first gate electrodes embedded at opening portion sides of the respective first trenches so as to face the channel regions across first gate insulating films above the field plate electrodes, second insulating films interposed between the field plate electrodes and the first gate electrodes, an embedded insulating film embedded to an intermediate portion of the second trench, and a second gate electrode embedded in the second trench so as to face the channel regions across a second gate insulating film above the embedded insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuto Osawa
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Patent number: 10326013Abstract: A method is provided for forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure including trench-based semiconductor devices, e.g., trench FETs, having front-side drain contacts. The method may include forming an epitaxy region, forming a poly gate trench in the epitaxy region, forming a drain contact trench through the poly gate trench and extending below the poly gate trench, forming a poly gate in the poly gate trench, forming a front-side drain contact in the drain contact trench, and forming a source region in the epitaxy region adjacent the poly gate. The device may define a drift region from the poly gate/source intersection to the front-side drain contact. The drift region may be located within the epitaxy layer, without extending into an underlying substrate or transition layer. The front-side drain contact depth may be selected to influence the device breakdown voltage. The front-side drain contacts may allow flip-chip mounting of the IC structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Greg Dix, Jina Shumate, Eric Peterson, Rajesh Nayak
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Patent number: 10319627Abstract: Structures for air-gap spacers in a field-effect transistor and methods for forming air-gap spacers in a field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed on a top surface of a semiconductor body. A dielectric spacer is formed adjacent to a vertical sidewall of the gate structure. A semiconductor layer is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor layer is arranged relative to the vertical sidewall of the gate structure such that a first section of the first dielectric spacer is located in a space between the semiconductor layer and the vertical sidewall of the gate structure. A second section of the dielectric spacer that is located above a top surface of the semiconductor layer is removed. An air-gap spacer is formed in a space from which the second section of the dielectric spacer is removed.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.Inventors: Chanro Park, Min Gyu Sung, Hoon Kim, Ruilong Xie
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Patent number: 10319831Abstract: Technique disclosed herein can suppress performance variation among semiconductor devices to be manufactured upon manufacturing each semiconductor device by forming diffusion layer by ion implantation to semiconductor substrate after etching. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes an emitter region, a top body region, a barrier region, a bottom body region, a drift region, a collector region, a trench, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. A front surface of the gate electrode is provided at a deeper position than a front surface of the semiconductor substrate. Within the gate electrode, a front surface of a first portion at a widthwise center of a trench is provided at a shallower position than a front surface of a second portion in contact with the gate insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Onishi, Shuhei Oki, Tomoharu Ikeda, Rahman Md. Tasbir
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Patent number: 10319726Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region and an element isolation region defining the active region, a gate trench extending into the element isolation region and penetrating the active region, and a gate structure filling the gate trench and including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a conductive layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, sequentially stacked from a lower portion of the gate trench.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: In Cheol Nam, Sung Hee Han, Dae Sun Kim
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Patent number: 10319850Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprising a drain layer, a base region, a source region, a field plate electrode, and a gate region. The drift layer is formed on the drain layer. The base region is formed on the drift layer. The source region is formed on the base region. The field plate electrode is formed inside a trench reaching the drift layer through the base region from the source region. The gate region is formed inside the trench, wherein the gate region has a U-shape including a recess on the gate region in a direction along the trench and is formed such that, on upper surfaces of respective both ends of the U-shape, a position of an inner end on a side of the recess is higher than a position of an outer end on a side of the second insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Saya Shimomura, Toshifumi Nishiguchi, Hiroaki Katou, Kenya Kobayashi, Takahiro Kawano, Tetsuya Ohno
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Patent number: 10312363Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a device region having one or more active trenches, a field termination region having an edge trench. A depth of the edge trench is larger than a depth of the one or more active trenches. A thickness of an insulation layer in the edge trench is larger than a thickness of an insulation layer in the one or more active trenches. In some embodiments, the first depth is from 1.2 to 2.0 times larger than the second depth, and a first width of the edge trench is 1.5 to 4.0 times larger than a second width of the one or more active trenches. In a cross-sectional view, a gate electrode of the edge trench is laterally offset from the source electrode in a depth direction of the edge trench such that the gate electrode and the source electrode do not overlap.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Fukunaga, Taro Kondo
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Patent number: 10297687Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface, and first to third active patterns extending from the upper surface of the substrate. The first to third active patterns are arranged adjacent to each other in a first direction. The second active pattern is disposed between the first and third active patterns. The semiconductor device also includes a first gate electrode surrounding side surfaces of the first and second active patterns, and a second gate electrode surrounding side surfaces of the third active pattern. Each of the first to third active patterns includes a first impurity region, a channel region, and a second impurity region.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeoncheol Heo, Sharma Deepak, Kwanyoung Chun
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Patent number: 10290728Abstract: A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first dielectric layer, a third doped region, a fourth doped region, a second dielectric layer and a conductive layer. The substrate has a first trench in a first area and a second trench in a second area. The first and second doped regions are disposed in the substrate respectively at two side of the first trench. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the sidewall of the first trench. The third doped region is disposed around the second trench. The fourth doped region is disposed in the third doped region at one side of the second trench. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the sidewall and bottom of the second trench. The conductive layer is disposed in the first and second trenches.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chu-Ming Ma, Chun-Yi Lin, Hung-Chi Huang, Hsien-Ta Chung
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Patent number: 10269911Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a gate electrode buried in a gate trench of a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first conductivity-type source region, a second conductivity-type channel region, and a first conductivity-type drain region formed in the semiconductor layer, a second trench selectively formed in a source portion defined in a manner containing the source region in the surface of the semiconductor layer, a trench buried portion buried in the second trench, a second conductivity-type channel contact region selectively disposed at a position higher than that of a bottom portion of the second trench in the source portion, and electrically connected with the channel region, and a surface metal layer disposed on the source portion, and electrically connected to the source region and the channel contact region.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuki Nakano
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Patent number: 10269568Abstract: A method includes oxidizing a semiconductor fin to form an oxide layer on opposite sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is over a top surface of an isolation region. After the oxidizing, a tilt implantation is performed to implant an impurity into the semiconductor fin. The oxide layer is removed after the tilt implantation.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventor: Wen-Tai Lu
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Patent number: 10256250Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device is provided. A stacked structure is formed on a substrate. The stacked structure includes conductive patterns vertically stacked on the substrate. A selection structure including selection conductive patterns is stacked on the stacked structure. A channel structure penetrates the selection structure and the stacked structure to connect to the substrate. An upper interconnection line crosses the selection structure. A conductive pad is disposed on the channel structure to electrically connect the upper interconnection line to the channel structure. A bottom surface of the conductive pad is positioned below a top surface of the uppermost selection conductive pattern of the selection conductive patterns.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihyun Kim, Chadong Yeo
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Patent number: 10243073Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for co-integrating a short-channel vertical transistor and a long-channel transistor. One method may include: from a starting substrate, forming a wide fin, wherein the wide fin comprises a wide active region; depositing a recess mask over a top surface of the starting substrate; recessing a long channel based on the deposited recess mask; depositing a gate electrode and a gate material, to form a gate structure; and forming SD contacts in an SD region of the long-channel transistor.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brent A. Anderson, Steven Bentley, Kwan-Yong Lim, Hiroaki Niimi, Junli Wang
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Patent number: 10181523Abstract: A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor structure with improved unclamped inductive switching immunity. The LDMOS includes a substrate and an adjacent epitaxial layer both of a first conductivity type. A gate structure is above the epitaxial layer. A drain region and a source region, both of a second conductivity type, are within the epitaxial layer. A channel is formed between the source and drain region and arranged below the gate structure. A body structure of the first conductivity type is at least partially formed under the gate structure and extends laterally under the source region, wherein the epitaxial layer is less doped than the body structure. A conductive trench-like feed-through element passes through the epitaxial layer and contacts the substrate and the source region. The LDMOS includes a tub region of the first conductivity type formed under the source region, and adjacent laterally to and in contact with said body structure and said trench-like feed-through element.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Vishay-SiliconixInventors: Wenjie Zhang, Madhur Bobde, Qufei Chen, Kyle Terrill
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Patent number: 10177134Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a plurality of trenches formed in the substrate; and a plurality of functional element forming regions arrayed along each of the trenches, including a channel forming region as a current path, wherein the plurality of functional element forming regions includes a first functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively small and a second functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively large, and the first functional element forming region is provided at a region where heat generation should be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Okuda, Motoharu Haga, Kenji Fujii
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Patent number: 10153357Abstract: A method for manufacturing a super junction power MOSFET includes forming a first trench in a substrate, forming a first oxide layer over the substrate and in the bottom and along sidewalls of the trench, depositing electrically conductive material in the trench, masking a first portion of the electrically conductive material, forming a recessed portion of the electrically conductive material, forming an oxide portion over and in contact with the recessed portion of the electrically conductive material, removing a part of the oxide portion by masking, removing the first oxide layer on the sidewalls while another part of the oxide portion remains in contact with the recessed portion of the electrically conductive material, forming a gate dielectric along exposed sidewalls of the trench, and depositing additional electrically conductive material over the other part of the oxide portion in the trench.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Ganming Qin, Vishnu Khemka, Tanuj Saxena, Moaniss Zitouni, Raghuveer Vankayala Gupta, Mark Edward Gibson
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Patent number: 10103240Abstract: A lateral super junction JFET is formed from stacked alternating P type and N type semiconductor layers over a P-epi layer supported on an N+ substrate. An N+ drain column extends down through the super junction structure and the P-epi to connect to the N+ substrate to make the device a bottom drain device. N+ source column and P+ gate column extend through the super junction but stop at the P-epi layer. A gate-drain avalanche clamp diode is formed from the bottom the P+ gate column through the P-epi to the N+ drain substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor IncorporatedInventors: Madhur Bobde, Lingpeng Guann, Anup Bhalla, Hamza Yilmaz
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Patent number: 10096531Abstract: A semiconductor device includes semiconductor body region and a surface region, the semiconductor body region including a first conductivity type first semiconductor region type and a second conductivity type second semiconductor region.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Christian Jaeger, Johannes Georg Laven, Frank Dieter Pfirsch, Alexander Philippou
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Patent number: 10083835Abstract: By directing an ion beam with a beam divergence ? on a process surface of a semiconductor substrate, parallel electrode trenches are formed in the semiconductor substrate. A center axis of the directed ion beam is tilted to a normal to the process surface at a tilt angle ?, wherein at least one of the tilt angle ? and the beam divergence ? is not equal to zero. The semiconductor substrate is moved along a direction parallel to the process surface during formation of the electrode trenches. A conductive electrode is formed in the electrode trenches, wherein first sidewalls of the electrode trenches are tilted to the normal by a first slope angle ?1 with ?1 =(?+?/2) and second sidewalls are tilted to the normal by a second slope angle ?2 with ?2 =(???/2).Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Johannes Georg Laven, Anton Mauder, Roland Rupp, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Werner Schustereder
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Patent number: 10074743Abstract: A recess is formed at a semiconductor layer of a device to define a plurality of mesas. An active trench portion of the recess residing between adjacent mesas. A termination portion of the trench residing between the end of each mesa and a perimeter of the recess. The transverse spacing between the mesas and the lateral spacing between the mesas and an outer perimeter of a recess forming the mesas are substantially the same. A shield structure within the trench extends from the region between the mesas to the region between the ends of the mesas and the outer perimeter of the recess forming the mesas. A contact resides between a shield electrode terminal and the shield portion residing in the trench.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Ganming Qin, Edouard D. De Fresart, Pon Sung Ku, Michael F. Petras, Moaniss Zitouni, Dragan Zupac
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Patent number: 10068998Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided in which a semiconductor substrate can be prevented from being broken while elements can be prevented from being destroyed by a snap-back phenomenon. After an MOS gate structure is formed in a front surface of an FZ wafer, a rear surface of the FZ wafer is ground. Then, the ground surface is irradiated with protons and irradiated with two kinds of laser beams different in wavelength simultaneously to thereby form an N+ first buffer layer and an N second buffer layer. Then, a P+ collector layer and a collector electrode are formed on the proton-irradiated surface. The distance from a position where the net doping concentration of the N+ first buffer layer is locally maximized to the interface between the P+ collector layer and the N second buffer layer is set to be in a range of 5 ?m to 30 ?m, both inclusively.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Michio Nemoto, Haruo Nakazawa
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Patent number: 10020380Abstract: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate including an active cell areas and a termination area. The semiconductor power device further comprises a plurality of gate trenches formed at a top portion of the semiconductor substrate in the active cell area wherein each of the gate trenches is partially filled with a conductive gate material with a top portion of the trenches filled by a high density plasma (HDP) insulation layer. The semiconductor power device further comprises mesa areas of the semiconductor substrate disposed between the gate trenches wherein the mesa areas are recessed and having a top mesa surface disposed vertically below a top surface of the HDP insulation layer wherein the HDP insulation layer covering over the conductive gate material constituting a stick-out boundary-defining layer surrounding the recessed mesa areas in the active cell areas between the gate trenches.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor IncorporatedInventors: Wenjun Li, Paul Thorup, Hong Chang, Yeeheng Lee, Yang Xiang, Jowei Dun, Hongyong Xue, Yiming Gu